Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

when asked, most folks will gladly tell us about ourselves, who we are, what we're feeling, and where we should be heading. And if we don't honor ourselves by listening to our lives, we'll believe them.

I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

I think and that is all that I am.

My personality doesn't interest me.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.

You discover who you truly are only when you live alone.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

You are the imagination of yourself.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

I like when people know exactly, have a good sense of themselves, and know exactly what's good for them, I admire that, but I don't have anywhere near that kind of perspective on my own.

I am never more myself than in my self-betrayals.

I rejected the word humorist for a long time because I thought that it meant you had, like, a cardigan sweater with patches on the elbows, but now I'm old and I do. I grew into that word. I think at heart, all this time, I've been a diarist. I'm not ashamed of it.

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

If I do not understand myself, the whole complexity of myself, I have no basis for thinking.